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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:47:00 +0000
Subject: Re: Listing children processes
From: Arnaud Delobelle <arno...@gmail.com>
To: Mihai Badoiu <mbad...@gmail.com>
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On 28 February 2012 21:39, Mihai Badoiu <mbad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Mihai Badoiu <mbad...@gmail.com> wrote=
:
>> > I'm trying to compute the total CPU load of an external process and it=
's
>> > children.=C2=A0 (so I cannot use resource.getrusage)=C2=A0 For the loa=
d of the
>> > process
>> > I can just grab it from /proc/X/stat.=C2=A0 How do I get the CPU load =
of the
>> > children processes?=C2=A0 Is there an easy way to get a list of the ch=
ildren
>> > processes?
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/psutil/
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Chris

> Looked at that before.=C2=A0 psutil doesn't do children.
>
> --mihai

Please don't top-post!  Also, psutil.Process.get_children() looks to
me like it "does" children.

--=20
Arnaud